Jennifer Averill is the head field hockey coach at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she has led the program since 1992 and spent 33 seasons building it into one of the sport's most accomplished programs.
Through the 2025 season, Averill holds a 441-249-3 record at Wake Forest and a 461-281-6 mark overall across 37 years as a head coach. Her tenure has included three NCAA championships, won in 2002, 2003, and 2004, giving Wake Forest the first national title earned by one of the school's women's programs. Her teams also finished as NCAA runner-up in 2006 and 2008, reached the national semifinals 10 times, and earned 19 NCAA Tournament selections, most recently in 2025.
